YouTuber, ex-philosopher 
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A lot of you saw that drunk comment I posted on Kat's video where I complain that journalists only want to talk to me if they're running stories that center the feelings of racist men. That is often I problem I encounter, but I was exaggerating somewhat.
In a profile of me that's mostly about me, it makes sense to mention the deradicalizing work, and in that case I don't feel like I'm being cast as merely a useful resource for recovering bigots.
The anti-Alt Right project was my main project in 2017, and at the time a lot of people told me I was obsessed with a weird but harmless Internet thing. So it is nice to be recognized now for that work, which is honestly probably the most important work I've done so far.
It's being covered now because there have been recent mass murders inspired by the alt-right. I wish this was being covered in 2017, and I wish it hadn't taken terrorist attacks for this to be taken seriously, but better late than never.
It's also not necessarily journalists' fault that it's only being covered now. I talked to a journalist yesterday who told me that he'd wanted to do a story about it in 2017, but the editors weren't having it, again bc of this (dangerously wrong) perception that it was just memes
That said, I do worry about being primarily known for work that I expect will soon become irrelevant (the alt-who???). My content has already started to move on, and recovering edgelords have long been a minority of my audience.
So basically, please don't drag journalists for covering the deradicalization story. If there's a profile/interview/podcast with me, it's because I agreed to do it. If I ever decide to fully distance myself from the deradicalization role, I will stop agreeing to these things.
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